Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-14

Fire in the furnace heats the house or
drives the steamer; but uncontrolled,
warehouses 20 down in awful crash before
it, and in few houfs half city will lie
in black ruin, walls and towers and
churches and monuments. You must ac-
company the education of the intellect
with the education Of the heart, or you
are rousing up within your child an en-
ergy which will be blasting and terrific.
Better wicked Ounce than 3 wicked phi
losopher.
You cannot, as parents, shirk the re-
sponsibility. God has charged you with
mission, and all the
THRONES OF HEAVEN
are waiting to see whether you will do
your duty. We must not forget that il is
not so much what we teach our children
as what we are in their presence. We wish
them to be better than we arc, but the
probability is that they will only be re
productions OF our own characters. Ger
man literature has much TO say Of the
spectre Of Brocken." Among those
mountains travellers, in certain conditions
of the atmosphere, see themselves copied
on gigantic scale in the clouds. At first
the travellers do not realize that it is
themselves on larger scale. When they
lift hand or move the head this monster
spectre does the came, and with such en-.
largement of proportions that the scene Is
most exciting, and thousands have gone to
that place just to behold the spectre of
Brocken. The probability is that some Of
our faults which we consider small and in
significant, five do not put an end to them,
will be copied on larger scale in the lives
OF our children, and perhaps 'dilated and
exaggerated into spectral proportions You
need not 90 as far offas Brocken 10 see that
process The first thing in importance in
the education Of our children is to make
ourselves, by the grace of God, fit exam
Piles to be copied. The day will come
when you must confront that child, not
in the church pew on calm Sabbath, but
amid the CONSERVATION of
THE RISING DEAD,
and the flying heavens, and \ burning
world. From your side that son or daugh-
ter, bone of your bone, heart of your heart,
eye his eye, shall 90 forth to an eternal
destiny. What will be your JOY if at last
you hear their feet in the same golden
highway and hear their voices in the same
rapturous song, illustrations, while the
eternal ages last, of what faithful parent
could, under God, accomplish. was
reading of a mother who, dying, had all
her children about her, and took each one
of them by the hand and asked them to
meet her in heaven, and with tears and
sobs such as those only know who have
stood by the deathbed of good old mother,
they all promised. But there was young
man Of nineteen who had been very wild
and reckless, and hard, and proud, and
when she took his hand she said: Now,
my boy, want you TO promise me before
! die that you will become Christian and
meet me in heaven" The young man
made no answer, for there was 10 much for
him TO give up if he made and kept such q
promise. But the aged mother persisted
in saying:
"You won't deny me that before 20,
will you? This parting must be forever.
Tell me now you will serve God and meet
me in the land where there Is no parting"
Quaking with emotion he stood, making
up his mind and halting and hesitating,
but at last his stubbornness yielded and
he threw his arms around his mothers
peck and said: "Yes, mother; will |
will" And as he finished the last word
of his promise her spirits ascended.
thank God the young man kept his
promise. Yes, he kept it. Nav God give
all mothers and fathers the gladness OF
their children's salvation.
For all who are trying to do their duty
as parents quote the tremendous passage:
Train up child in the way in which he
should go, and when he ia old he will not
depart from it," If through good dis
cipline and prayer and godly example you
are acting upon that child you have the
right to oexpect him to grow up virtuous.
And how many tears of joy you will shed
when you see your child honorable and
Just and truthful and Christian and sue
cessful-a holy man amid world Of dis
honesty, a godly womon in a world Of
frivolous pretension. When you come to
die they will gather TO bless your last
hours. They will push back the white
locks on your cold forehead aud say:
What good father he always was 70
me!' They will fold your hands peace
fully and say: Dear mother She is
gone Her troubles are all over. Don't
she look beautiful"